Most of us have been spared the plague of
transit oriented high density development, despite the fortune Obama spent to
evangelize. We did inherit some
expensive gridlock. We do have Agenda 21 crap still in our city and county
ordinances and we still have the “regionalism” enabling laws passed by the
States. But few of these urban paradises
have flourished and the road crews are starting to fix the potholes for our
dreaded automobiles.
Over the past 10 years, families continued to
buy homes in subdivisions in the exurbs, because they were a good value. Neighborhoods
were safer, crime was lower, taxes were lower, schools were better. homes were
cheaper, land was cheaper and traffic moved faster. The economic and practical
advantages were obvious.
The “megacities” offered none of these
advantages. Public transit didn’t go where most people needed to go. Gridlock
was everywhere and everything was too expensive.
The millennials who were going to populate
the urban paradise didn’t really materialize in any great numbers. None of out
pre-ordained “megacities” have developed as promised and we are trying to
figure out what to do with our unnecessary immigrants.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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